EXPOSÉS
DRUGS
Nitazenes Detected in Wastewater at 70% of Missouri Schools Tested
A highly potent class of synthetic opioids has turned up in wastewater at 26 of 37 monitored Missouri schools. Officials warn the drugs are spreading rapidly and often go undetected.
LATEST
MENTAL HEALTH
Psychiatric Abuse Allegations Mount as Staff Charged at New York Facility
New charges at Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health follow video showing a teen being shoved, while a class action lawsuit, prior conviction and $60 million jury award expose a wider pattern.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Eight Years After Backpage’s Seizure, the Sex Marketplace It Exposed Still Thrives in the Shadows
A landmark 2018 takedown promised a reckoning for online sex trafficking—but while a handful of executives fell, the broader ecosystem of enablers, profiteers and apologists remains largely intact. How do we hold the hidden perpetrators accountable?
HUMAN RIGHTS
HUMAN RIGHTS
Eight Years After Backpage’s Seizure, the Sex Marketplace It Exposed Still Thrives in the Shadows
A landmark 2018 takedown promised a reckoning for online sex trafficking—but while a handful of executives fell, the broader ecosystem of enablers, profiteers and apologists remains largely intact. How do we hold the hidden perpetrators accountable?
HUMAN RIGHTS
Quebec Laws Target Religious Expression, Push Educators From Classrooms
Teachers are being pushed out of Quebec classrooms for wearing hijabs, turbans and other religious symbols. Civil liberties groups say the province’s escalating secularism laws are targeting faith itself.
HUMAN RIGHTS
California Church Files Federal Suit After Mob Blocks Worshippers and Families During Services
Repeated attacks forced parishioners to abandon services, prompting a lawsuit that highlights escalating threats to houses of worship across the country.
MENTAL HEALTH
MENTAL HEALTH
Psychiatric Abuse Allegations Mount as Staff Charged at New York Facility
New charges at Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health follow video showing a teen being shoved, while a class action lawsuit, prior conviction and $60 million jury award expose a wider pattern.
MENTAL HEALTH
Euthanasia Cases Surge as Psychiatrists Expand Abusive “Treatments” to Include Death
Assisted suicide is no longer limited to terminal illness, with psychiatric patients now deemed capable of giving “informed consent” to die—even as the same system treats them as too insane to live.
MENTAL HEALTH
Virginia Jury Awards $20 Million in Child Abuse Case at Psychiatric Facility
The jury deliberated only three hours before reaching their verdict, after video showed a psychiatric worker dragging a 13-year-old across a room by a shirt wrapped around his neck.
CORRUPTION
CORRUPTION
New Documents Expose Lamar Advertising’s Nationwide Pattern of Lawbreaking
From Los Angeles to New York, officials document years of noncompliance that may now bring mounting legal consequences.
CORRUPTION
Connecticut Attorney General’s Office Reprimanded for Pay-to-Play Public Records Policy
A stinging Freedom of Information Commission recommendation finds the state’s top legal office demanded advance payment for records, treated transparency as secondary, and adopted an unpublished fee policy that violates Connecticut law.
CORRUPTION
Michigan Journalist Sues State Attorney General’s Office Over “Grant-and-Delay” FOIA Practices
Despite repeated reform efforts, Michigan’s FOIA remains ineffective, leaving citizens and journalists blocked from accessing critical government records.
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
New Book from Parent/Educator Barbie Rivera Says “Enough Is Enough.” Educate—Don’t Drug—Our Kids.
When her son’s school demanded Barbie Rivera drug her child, she said no. She’s been fighting back against a broken system ever since.
DRUGS
DRUGS
Nitazenes Detected in Wastewater at 70% of Missouri Schools Tested
A highly potent class of synthetic opioids has turned up in wastewater at 26 of 37 monitored Missouri schools. Officials warn the drugs are spreading rapidly and often go undetected.
DRUGS
UK Marijuana Boom Driven by Just 10 Doctors Writing Half of All Prescriptions
A handful of doctors is driving a massive prescription surge in the UK’s $6.6 billion-a-year medical cannabis industry—even as new data links the drug to higher rates of depression, anxiety and heart disease.
DRUGS
UK Sees Surge in Fatal Nitazene Overdoses Tied to Sales on Telegram Messaging App
Experts warn potent synthetic opioids are spreading rapidly across Europe and may devastate users who believe they are buying other drugs.
HATE
HATE
Savanna Neighbors Ordered to Pay $100,000 in Illinois’ First Civil Hate Crime Case Over Racist Harassment
Attorney General Kwame Raoul secured the first victory under Illinois’ amended Hate Crime Act after a Black homeowner was terrorized with swastikas, a Confederate flag and a lynched effigy. The ruling comes as hate crimes surge statewide.
HATE
Naked Bigotry in Oklahoma Blocks Plans for a New Mosque
The city council voted 4–1 against rezoning for a 42,000-square-foot mosque, masking discrimination behind infrastructure concerns.
HATE
19-Year-Old Antisemite Charged in Burning of Mississippi’s Largest Synagogue
The suspect, who has a history of antisemitic posts online, confessed to targeting the house of worship because of its “Jewish ties.” The blaze has left the state’s largest synagogue unable to host worship services.
